Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) [REPOST]
DVD9 | NTSC | ISO | 4:3 | 720x480 | 8600 kbps | 6.7Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English, Spanish
01:35:00 | USA | Crime, Film-Noir, Drama
DVD9 | NTSC | ISO | 4:3 | 720x480 | 8600 kbps | 6.7Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English, Spanish
01:35:00 | USA | Crime, Film-Noir, Drama
Det. Sgt. Mark Dixon wants to be something his old man wasn't: a guy on the right side of the law. But Dixon's vicious nature will get the better of him.
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill, Bert Freed, Tom Tully, Karl Malden, Ruth Donnelly, Craig Stevens, Fred Aldrich, Don Appell, Tony Barr, Eddie Borden, Neville Brand, Barry Brooks, Ralph Brooks, Oleg Cassini, John Close, Tom Coleman, Clancy Cooper, John Daheim, Sayre Dearing, Bob Evans, Charles Flynn, Robert Foulk, Anthony George, Joseph Granby, Chuck Hamilton, Kathleen Hughes, Lou Krugman, Louise Lane
IMDb
Det. Sgt. Mark Dixon always wanted to be something his old man wasn't: a guy on the right side of the law. But for a good guy, he's awfully vicious. After several complaints over his roughing people up, his boss, Insp. Nicholas Foley, demotes him. Foley tells him he's a good man, but needs to get his head on straight and be more like Det. Lt. Thomas, who has just gotten a promotion. Meanwhile, Tommy Scalise has an illegal dice game going and is looking to make a sucker out of the rich Ted Morrison, who was brought in by Ken Paine and his beautiful wife Morgan. She figures out too late her husband is using her as a decoy. Paine strikes her when she refuses to play along. The chivalrous Morrison intervenes but Paine knocks him out cold. That seems to be the worst of it, but later it turns out the guy is dead; and Paine looks guilty. Soon Dixon has fallen in love with Morgan - but not before losing his temper again and committing a terrible deed that he tries to cover up. Morgan's father…
~ J. Spurlin
DVDBeaver
This was Otto Preminger's last studio pictures at 20th Century Fox. "Where the Sidewalk Ends" was adapted by Ben Hecht, writing under a pseudonym, based on the novel "Night Cry" by William Stuart. It still contains some wonderful film noir qualities and scenes. The plot involves a law enforcement officer, Mark Dixon, (played by Dana Andrews) who we are never sure of which way he will morally fall. He hates the bad guys and has a reputation for leaning on them too hard. This aggressive behavior cause him to kill a suspect with a defensive punch. He fights with his past and his father's (a thief) reputation to hide the crime, but will the pureness of Morgan Taylor (Gene Tierney) assuage his inner battle and admit the truth? This drifts in and out of the noir genre, but is a marvelous film regardless.